Relationships between people in this small community are truly put to the test in the final part of the trilogy Småstadsliv (Small Town Life). Ingemar, an excavator operator with a back injury, needs a vacation, but what was supposed to be a peaceful caravan idyll in the Swedish summer soon turns...
A young woman moves back to Holmsveden after her father's death. She notices that her childhood village has changed since she left it. The formerly lively main street is empty, the paint on the houses has peeled off and the bus routes have long since been withdrawn